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  • Guido Daniele

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    Guido Daniele is an italian painter and illustrator based in Milan. In 2000, Daniele started creating his “Handimals”, in which he applies body painting techniques to hands, poses them in positions that, along with the painting, result in images that resemble animals, portrayed with a wonderful sense of dynamics. He has extended this to painted…

  • Mysteries of Vernacular

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    As much as I love art, I’m also fond of words; and I find the the origin of particular words fascinating because it shows, as in art, how we develop things and put them into use over time. I also like animation. Mysteries of Vernacular is a series of short, artfully crafted stop-motion animations explaining…

  • Jess and Russ

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    OK, now this is how you do an online wedding invitation. I can’t possibly do better in describing “Jess and Russ” than Scott McCloud did in his tweet this morning: “Another day, another stunning, collaborative, parallax-scrolling, infinite canvas wedding invitation.” Exactly. Collaborative refers to the contributions that the couple, both designers, elicited from their friends…

  • Nagai Hideyuki

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    Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki has created a fun series of drawings that span two sketchbooks propped at 90° to one another, and when viewed from the proper angle, give the illusion of continuous three dimensionality. You can see a selection on his website and on his deviantART page. There is a video on YouTube that…

  • Daniel Sponton

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    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…

  • Piranesi’s Carceri d’invenzione animated

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    18th Century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his set of etchings titled Carceri (“Prisons”), sometimes referred to as “Carceri d’invenzione“, or “Imaginary Prisons”. These were architectural fantasies that were more in keeping with grand imaginative stage sets than any real prisons, filled with arches, bridges, sculpture and elaborate stonework. Artist Grégoire Dupond,…